What is the solo camp potential of a 60 shaman without puppet strings?

[TrendyDru]

Assuming you have your epic and no Torpor:
HS entrance, North, and West all doable. West is pretty sketchy.
Efreeti is hard. Can 4rot the trash out front of his room no problem, but getting efreeti spawned and killing him without adds spawning or living if they do spawn is the tricky part. Not impossible, but need to make little to no mistakes and have RNG on your side.

With torpor:
Everything probably.

[Rhambuk]

I don't know I im more disturbed by your sig or your avatar...

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by TrendyDru [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Assuming you have your epic and no Torpor:
HS entrance, North, and West all doable. West is pretty sketchy.
Efreeti is hard. Can 4rot the trash out front of his room no problem, but getting efreeti spawned and killing him without adds spawning or living if they do spawn is the tricky part. Not impossible, but need to make little to no mistakes and have RNG on your side.

With torpor:
Everything probably.

I'd like to see a shaman without torpor doing HS west... and we're not talking about just killing a few hallway mobs. Would also like to see a shaman with torpor do HS south!


A fungi tunic is significant for a shaman, although for MOST of the stuff a shaman can solo right now, once you have torpor a tunic isn't going to be a big deal.

[webrunner5]

HS north ain't going to happen without Strings. Only so much you can do even with root. It does break and your ass is had. Enchanters rule there for a reason. And even they F up at times. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Hard area.

[Scoresby]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

HS north ain't going to happen without Strings. Only so much you can do even with root. It does break and your ass is had. Enchanters rule there for a reason. And even they F up at times. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Hard area.

You can absolutely do HS North as a shaman without strings. It's not fun, but I've gone in several times and solo'd it to replace keys I let decay. It's all about knowing what you can pull when to not get an entire room. The wing boss as a shaman is considerably harder to solo than all of West though for sure.

Also, I solo'd pretty much exclusively here from 57-60 (HS North that is) on the west side of the hall camping 2 rooms. It's not super hard to do all 3 at 60 with Torpor.

-Stinkie

[Teppler]

I've spent a lot of time in hs north, shaman camping there is very very rare. Most I've seen them hold down is 1 spawn room. With how long root rotting takes and respawn times, you wouldn't be able to hold down all 3 rooms. Plus there's casters and now you gotta worry about root breaking. It was an already tough spot for a shaman and became tougher recently.

[webrunner5]

Originally Posted by Teppler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've spent a lot of time in hs north, shaman camping there is very very rare. Most I've seen them hold down is 1 spawn room. With how long root rotting takes and respawn times, you wouldn't be able to hold down all 3 rooms. Plus there's casters and now you gotta worry about root breaking. It was an already tough spot for a shaman and became tougher recently.

Shamans can do some crazy things at times, but no way you are doing HS North solo. And You had better be a Ogre Shaman at that to even try. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Every patch lately has just made some things harder and harder. Man if one of your roots break you are toast compared to a Chanter being able to mezz. They can charm a lot higher DPS mob than your dog can do by far. I know Shamans can take on 2 or 3 mobs in KC or Seb and with some luck with Torpar and the Epic make it happen, but clearing out a whole room full of mobs just is not what they are cut out for. They are good toe to toe with one mob IF you are a Ogre, even in Velious. I think you are trying to do something that is not going to have a good outcome. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shamans can do some crazy things at times, but no way you are doing HS North solo. And You had better be a Ogre Shaman at that to even try. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Every patch lately has just made some things harder and harder. Man if one of your roots break you are toast compared to a Chanter being able to mezz. They can charm a lot higher DPS mob than your dog can do by far. I know Shamans can take on 2 or 3 mobs in KC or Seb and with some luck with Torpar and the Epic make it happen, but clearing out a whole room full of mobs just is not what they are cut out for. They are good toe to toe with one mob IF you are a Ogre, even in Velious. I think you are trying to do something that is not going to have a good outcome. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You seem to think Ogre is way better than it actually is.

[BlkCamel]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You seem to think Ogre is way better than it actually is.

And you may be discounting Ogre too much. Stun immunity is immensely noticeable, I played Barb shaman 99-06ish and rolled Ogre here immediately. Now if this server went to PoP-ish era, I would argue Troll, then Iksar, then Ogre. But with Velious being cap you cannot ignore Ogre.

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shamans can do some crazy things at times, but no way you are doing HS North solo. And You had better be a Ogre Shaman at that to even try. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Every patch lately has just made some things harder and harder. Man if one of your roots break you are toast compared to a Chanter being able to mezz. They can charm a lot higher DPS mob than your dog can do by far. I know Shamans can take on 2 or 3 mobs in KC or Seb and with some luck with Torpar and the Epic make it happen, but clearing out a whole room full of mobs just is not what they are cut out for. They are good toe to toe with one mob IF you are a Ogre, even in Velious. I think you are trying to do something that is not going to have a good outcome. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You know nothing about shamans apparently. I break and hold the final boss room to get west wing key, which includes a pull of 5-6 mobs. I pull the other 3 ph rooms to PL people, which means I'm rooting them all solo before we start killing. North is/was/always will be easy for a torpor shaman. And they could hold down all 3 named rooms solo np with epic in the mix. I mean, they could snipe ph if they wanted to, but they could also just kill everything without much trouble. 6-8 minutes per kill and 20 min repop? Only need to root/rot 4 at a time at that pace.. /yawn